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I’m not really a pancake guy. Those doughy cakes don’t seem like the kind of food to help me in my battle against the midsection bulge.
But like all my food preferences, there’s always an exception. And in the case of pancakes, I do stray when the menu includes lemon ricotta pancakes.
I’m a lemon […]
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PORTLAND, Ore.
In my last post from my Portland holiday trip, I give a roundup of all my other dining adventures. I think the diversity below will reinforce this city’s reputation as one of the country’s most exciting food destination.
The following are some of the new places I tried, and doesn’t include some […]
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While I love pumpkin pies, I was intrigued by a recipe I saw in the Portland Cooks cookbook for a pumpkin upside-down cake with caramelized pears.
I made this cake for Thanksgiving in lieu of a pumpkin pie, and while I had some challenges in the baking process, it turned out […]
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The bakery game on the East Bay exploded this summer when famed San Francisco bakery Tartine opened an outlet in the Graduate Berkeley Hotel.
Tartine, which has grown from a Mission bakery with a famous queue to Tartine Manufactory locations in Los Angeles and Seoul, brought its excitement for breads and morning buns across the […]
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Earlier this summer, a Japanese-influenced dessert cafe opened in Berkeley, and as expected Instagram went crazy over the primarily matcha desserts.
But I was in the midst of a no-sugar diet for much of July so I had to patiently wait before I could drop into the new Amausaan Uji Matcha on Shattuck Avenue. The […]
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SEATTLE
I recently came back from a long weekend in the Pacific Northwest, and while typically you’ll often be hearing a whole slew of Portland bites, this time I went a bit further and dined around town in Seattle.
It’s been several years since I’ve been to the Emerald City, and it’s definitely changed […]
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The French is asserting its influence in San Francisco all over again.
Sure, the beaux art design of City Hall and other Civic Center buildings echo Paris. But now the French comes in the form of a six-story culinary complex in the Union Square area with the opening of One65.
The idea of visiting Patisserie Rotha can seem pretty intimidating, especially since the tiny bakery in Albany has gained a reputation of selling out quickly after doors open with lines starting early in the morning.
Since it opened last July, the French bakery on San Pablo Avenue (across from the Sprouts market complex) has been […]
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I’d seen this recipe in the Martha Stewart magazine a few years ago and pinned it to my Pinterest account. But like most things I pin, I never got around to trying it.
So with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought these pretty pink-lemonade thumbprint cookies would be perfect for […]
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
For me, the holidays are for catching up and … sweets! And somehow I’m always finding myself doing both in Mountain View.
Partly that’s because I meet up with my friend Denise, who lives in San Jose. And partly because Mountain View has some great patisseries, including the newest on the […]
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LOS ANGELES
My post-Greece weekend in Los Angeles turned out to be a busier few days of food tasting than my time in Greece, mostly because there is just so much happening in Southern California when it comes to food. I could barely squeeze in everything I wanted to try in the four days […]
More and more, people are discovering matcha.
This popular green tea from Japan comes in powder from, typically when the tea leaves are grounded in a stonemill. Thus the aptly named Stonemill Matcha, a new San Francisco cafe that’s bringing premium shade-grown matcha from Kyoto, Japan.
But Stonemill […]
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So I’m not going to claim that the idea of matcha tiramisu is terribly original, but I will say that this is a dish that I just guessed in my head about proportions and for making it the first time, it was a complete success!
I’ve toyed with the idea of making matcha tiramisu for […]
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Kahnfections is a 1-year-old Mission neighborhood bakery cafe flying under the radar in a city where people line up for hours for a flakey croissant, cruffin or kouign amann. It doesn’t have a high-profile spot on busy Valencia or Mission Street, but it does have heart.
The tiny spot on 20th […]
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